Adele Webb

Adele is a PhD researcher at University of Sydney's Department of Government and International Relations, and a member of the Sydney Democracy Network. She specialises in the fields of political sociology and political theory. Her doctoral research uses a historical study of democratisation and the middle classes in the Philippines to challenge core assumptions in contemporary democratic theory and to develop the concept of 'democratic ambivalence'. She has written on Philippine politics for the Australian media. Previously, she worked in international justice advocacy and was director of NGO Jubilee Australia.

Experience

2013–present

Doctoral Candidate, University of Sydney, University of Sydney

2008–2012

Director, Jubilee Australia

Education

2012

London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc Political Sociology

2011

University of South Africa, Bachelor of Human & Social Studies (Development Studies)

Publications

A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency (edited by Nicole Curato), Chapter - Hide the Looking Glass: Duterte and the Legacy of American Imperialism (Forthcoming)

2011

Debt-for-Development Exchanges: History and New Applications (edited by Professor Ross Buckley, University of New South Wales), Chapter 9 - Debt-for-Development Exchanges in Australia: Past, Present and Future (Adele Webb and Luke Fletcher)